by Hanif Kureishi (1990)
The Buddha of Suburbia is Hanif Kureishi's exuberant Whitbread First Novel Award-winning coming-of-age classic. Narrated by Karim Amir, a mixed-race teenager growing up in the drab suburbs of 1970s South London, it charts his escape into London's vibrant theatre and punk scenes while navigating racial identity, sexuality, and family eccentricity.
Percival Everett
A blistering, razor-sharp literary satire of American race relations, publishing hypocrisy, and identity. Thelonious 'Monk' Ellison, an erudite Black professor of literature whose novels are rejected for not being 'Black enough,' writes a parody of ghetto exploitation fiction under a pseudonym—only for it to become a massive critical and commercial sensation.
Maher, Kevin
A warm and funny debut about a young man in trouble and a family in love and in pieces. Over the summer, Jim wins the attention of a beautiful older girl-but he also becomes the unwilling target of a devious religious figure in the community. His life starts to unravel as he faces consequences from both his love for his girlfriend and his attempts to avoid the Parish Priest. When he and his girlfriend take a ferry for a clandestine trip to London, the dark and difficult repercussions from the trip force Jim to look for the solution to all his problems in some very unusual places. THE FIELDS is an unforgettable story of an extraordinary character. It's a portrait of a boy who sinks into troubles as he grows into a man, and the loving but fractured family that might be his downfall-or his salvation. Lyrical, funny, and endlessly inventive, it is a brilliant debut from a remarkable new voice.
Robert Ramsay & Randall Toye
A gleeful guide to the tearful partings of men and women--from movies, literature, and life--with quavering quotes, soulful scenes and comforting commentary to get you through the night.
Juvenal
In the Satires, Juvenal mocks in verse the venal behaviors common to the powerful in the Rome of his time. The Satires became a standard Latin reader for students learning that language. It has been consequently been translated into many modern language editions, both in literal and verse translations.